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Top-class facilities, financial stability, giving back to their community: all reasons Brighton & Hove Albion deserve Premier League football, writes Andrew Derrett
Many football teams around the country seem fit for a life at the top of the national game. Established heavyweights like Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool are almost synonymous with the Premier League – one could barely envisage an English top-flight without them. The rest consist of those battling for survival, and those who sit comfortably, quietly going about their business.
Southampton, Stoke, West Brom: these aren’t clubs often involved at either ‘business-ends’ of the table, and they rarely enthuse or excite a neutral fan. But the truth is, most of the 92 English Football League clubs would bite your hand off if offered to be in the position of relative stability held by these teams.
And Tuesday evening played host to two second-tier teams harbouring serious hopes of joining that less-than-illustrious group. Newcastle’s visit to Brighton was billed as a key battle in the much publicised ‘Race for the Premier League’, as the Championship’s top two locked horns on the south coast. In a broadly even, competitive affair, it was the visitors who walked away with a 2–1 victory, a late double handing them a vital three points and taking them above Brighton to the Championship summit.
MORE >>> https://www.varsity.co.uk/sport/124..._campaign=Feed:+varsity/sport+(Varsity+Sport)
Top-class facilities, financial stability, giving back to their community: all reasons Brighton & Hove Albion deserve Premier League football, writes Andrew Derrett
Many football teams around the country seem fit for a life at the top of the national game. Established heavyweights like Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool are almost synonymous with the Premier League – one could barely envisage an English top-flight without them. The rest consist of those battling for survival, and those who sit comfortably, quietly going about their business.
Southampton, Stoke, West Brom: these aren’t clubs often involved at either ‘business-ends’ of the table, and they rarely enthuse or excite a neutral fan. But the truth is, most of the 92 English Football League clubs would bite your hand off if offered to be in the position of relative stability held by these teams.
And Tuesday evening played host to two second-tier teams harbouring serious hopes of joining that less-than-illustrious group. Newcastle’s visit to Brighton was billed as a key battle in the much publicised ‘Race for the Premier League’, as the Championship’s top two locked horns on the south coast. In a broadly even, competitive affair, it was the visitors who walked away with a 2–1 victory, a late double handing them a vital three points and taking them above Brighton to the Championship summit.
MORE >>> https://www.varsity.co.uk/sport/124..._campaign=Feed:+varsity/sport+(Varsity+Sport)
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